Sentences with phrase «deals reached decades»

Abrahams criticized the lack of transparency, comparing the vote to deals reached decades ago in «smoke - filled rooms.»

Not exact matches

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration would still keep pressing for a deal to save DACA via budget negotiations, but she repeated Trump's position that any deal reached should include funding for the border wall and get rid of the decades - old lottery program that reserves visas for people from countries that have relatively few immigrants in the United States.

Late last night, the governor and legislature reached a deal on redistricting that essentially allows the State Senate's and Assembly's partisan majorities to put in place gerrymandered lines for the next decade, and creates the framework for a constitutional amendment to govern future redistrictings that creates a bipartisan commission to submit lines to the legislature for approval.

One is an August court date after Wills was unable to reach a plea deal with the Manhattan district attorney's office over several misdemeanor charges, an outstanding warrant and a small fine dating back more than a decade.

The bipartisan budget deal reached in late 2013 was praiseworthy, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner said in a newly published Politico op - ed, but more must be done to counteract the decades - long decline in federal funding for research and development.

Last week might have been the last time CO2 was below 400 parts per million in our lifetimes, underscoring that the impacts of climate change are here to stay for decades to come even if a strong climate deal is reached in Paris.

Yesterday, for the first time ever, Standard & Poor's lowered its long - term outlook for the U.S. Government's fiscal health from «stable» to «negative», and warned of serious consequences if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to control the massive deficit the country has racked up over the past decade.

Editorial Europe's carbon market reform for the next decade is a done deal, but while the EU's pollution price has increased in recent weeks, prices are well below what's needed to reach the Paris climate goals.

It gives governments the right to infringe on native title if it's in the broader public interest, but also strongly reinforces the view it's better to reach a deal with an aboriginal group than to launch into a costly legal process that may take more than a decade to be resolved.

There has been a great deal of research, over many decades, examining the use of home visiting to reach vulnerable children and families.